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At least 34 people have died and dozens more are injured after air strikes from Myanmar’s military hit a hospital in the country’s west on Wednesday night, according to ground sources. The hospital is located in Mrauk-U town in Rakhine state, an area controlled by the Arakan Army – one of the strongest ethnic armies read more

Two brothers wanted in connection with a deadly fire at their nightclub in India’s Goa state, which killed 25 people, have been detained in Thailand, India’s ambassador to Thailand, Nagesh Singh, told the BBC. Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, who own Birch By Romeo Lane club, fled to Phuket, shortly after the incident earlier this week. read more

Nicolas NégoceBBC Africa BTV Most of the soldiers who appeared on state TV early on Sunday morning are on the run A senior government official in Benin has told the BBC that the leader of Sunday’s failed coup is taking refuge in neighbouring Togo. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said that the government read more

The number of Indigenous people who have died in custody in Australia has hit the highest level since records began in 1980. New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology showed 33 of the 113 people who died in custody in the 12 months to June this year were Indigenous, up from 24 compared to read more

President Donald Trump has launched a scheme offering fast-tracked US visas to wealthy foreigners who can pay at least $1m (£750,000). The card will give buyers a “direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,” Trump said on social media on read more

Godwin AsedibaBBC News Komla Dumor Award winner, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone Andre Lombard / BBC Namina Jenneh is mourning her 17-year-old son who died while mining for gold There is a sense of disbelief in this Sierra Leonean village as people weep in front of the bodies of two teenage boys wrapped in white cloth. read more

A daughter of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sworn into parliament, less than a fortnight after her half-sister was forced to step down. Brumelda Zuma became one of South Africa’s newest MPs on Wednesday, representing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the opposition party led by her father. Her half-sister, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, resigned from parliament read more

The US has imposed sanctions on a network it says is recruiting former Colombian soldiers and training individuals to fight in Sudan’s civil war. Eight entities and individuals – primarily of Colombian nationality – have been aiding the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on read more

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Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent AFP via Getty Images Millions have fled the fighting which began in April 2023 Sudan’s air force has carried out bombings in which at least 1,700 civilians have died in attacks on residential neighbourhoods, markets, schools and camps for displaced people, according to an investigation into air raids in the country’s read more

Paul MellyWest Africa analyst AFP via Getty Images Plotters misjudged the national mood and Benin’s neighbours learnt from past errors Had last week’s coup attempt in Benin been successful, it would have become the ninth to take hold in the region in the last five years alone. Just a few days after soldiers took power read more

Japan has protested after Chinese fighter jets locked radars on Japanese aircraft as tensions between the two nations worsened. Locking radar onto an aircraft is considered a threat because it can signal a potential attack. Japan said there were two such incidents Saturday off its southern Okinawa islands. Japan said it scrambled fighter jets in read more

Queensland Police Service The murder of Toyah Cordingley prompted an outpouring of grief across the state of Queensland A former nurse has been found guilty of the high-profile murder of Toyah Cordingley, whose body was found on a popular tropical beach in Australia seven years ago. Toyah Cordingley was stabbed at least 26 times while read more

Watch: CCTV captures Matisse heist suspects making off with artworks on foot in São Paulo Two armed men have stolen eight engravings by French artist Matisse and at least another five by Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari from a library in São Paulo. Brazilian officials say the thieves held up a security guard and an elderly read more

About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been freed. They arrived in the Niger state capital, Minna, in a fleet of minibuses escorted by military vans and armoured vehicles, and were received by Governor Umar Bago. Details about their release remain unclear, including whether it was read more

Jane ChambersBusiness reporter, Aguas Calientes, Peru AFP via Getty Images Machu Picchu attracts more than 1.6 million tourists per year, but getting there is not easy Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru’s most popular tourist destination, and a Unesco world heritage site. Yet a continuing dispute over the buses read more

Security forces in Benin are searching for the soldiers who tried to seize power on Sunday morning, with the president saying they have taken an unknown number of hostages. The coup plotters appeared on state TV to announce they had taken over, and gunfire was heard near the presidential residence. However, President Patrice Talon later read more

Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have gone Instagram official after the singer posted a string of photographs and videos of their trip to Japan. In one picture, Perry and Trudeau are seen smiling for a selfie, with their faces touching. In another video, the pair are seen trying sushi. Neither Perry read more

A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function following a drone strike earlier this year, according to a UN watchdog. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors found that the massive structure, built over the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, had lost its “primary safety read more

Donald Trump has slammed Democrat Henry Cuellar’s “lack of loyalty” for not defecting to the Republican party after he was pardoned by the US president. In issuing his pardon on Wednesday, Trump said the Texas representative – who was charged last year with bribery and money laundering – had been politically targeted by the Biden read more